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<font face="Arial">Today I visited a customer who has a 1911 German
(Schiller) upright. It was refurbished about 40 years ago, but the
action parts are brittle. A hammer was wobbling around, and it
turned out that the hammer butt had split at the butt plate
screw. Actually it was an old glue repair that had given way. I
had no spare hammer butts with me.<br>
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Attempts to repair it with CA glue were proving problematical as
tightening the butt plate screw was forcing the join apart. I
asked the customer, a technically minded guy, if he might have a
little washer that I could put under the butt plate screw head so
that it would not penetrate so far, but would still grip because
of CA glue partly filling the hole.<br>
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The customer measured the butt plate screw head and shaft
diameters, went off, and came back with a beautiful little 2
millimeter high countersunk washer which he had just turned and
drilled from aluminum rod! It made a perfect little collar and
the idea worked. Unfortunately my cellphone camera wouldnt work so
I couldn't get a photo.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
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David.<br>
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